* We found out today that for some reason our clients no longer want a tower defence game, despite them initially agreeing to that concept. Therefore, after much debating we have decided to leave them as their new demands would make our current existing build of the game pointless.
Good News:
* As we no longer have a client, we are no longer restricted to a young audience and can expand our ideas even further. We will instead produce our game for the online games site http://www.kongregate.com/ and will be evaluated by the college.
So, I will now have to research the website in order to see how their games function for future reference.
* Adam, and I were also able to record our lines today which went great! Despite getting a bit of a sore throat, I am told my performance was hilarious and worth watching.
I'm glad I did some research in advance however, otherwise I feel that I would have had a even worse throat.
Group Chat:
Was asked to think about monetisation options for our game which I will do for next week.
No longer having a client means we can add what we wanted to the game, our own 'seal of approval' as it were. Therefore, I came up with the following ideas...
- As we haven't worked on it yet, I would really like to see the beginning and ending cut scenes included. Partly because I want to include more of my narrative, but also because I feel that it would make the game unique and differ from other tower defence games. I wouldn't mind hearing some voice acting in it as well.
- Flashy and impressive interface and game play e.g. 'Borderlands' esk explosions and visible health being chipped off enemies. Maybe even a commentator or text saying things like "Wow!", "Fantastic!", "Amazing!" and "Cool!".
- A merchant of some sort who sells the player buffs in between levels. Could then be an option for making us money in the form of micro transactions. It would also be cool if talking to the salesman revealed hints on the next level's encounters.
- A credit section for all the wonderful people that worked on the project. We could even look like Mii like avatars from the Nintendo Wii, inside a fire station perhaps? Maybe we would also squeak if clicked by the player.
- Maybe link real fire fighter websites to the game in order to push our safety message.
We were also asked to come up with possible company and game names, therefore I decided to write down anything and everything in order to come up with some fun and creative ideas.
Possible Company Names:
- Defiant
- Phoenix Games
- Innovative
- H.O.G (Heroes of Gaming)
- Gorilla Milkshake
- Rising Superstars
Possible Game Names:
- Blazing Tower Defence
- Fighting Fire
- Put out the fire because reasons...
- 3, 2, 1, Tower Defence Game!
- A game of extinguishers and fire
- Stop, Duck and PUT OUT THE FIRE!!!
Harvard Referencing:
- Kongregate (Unknown) Kongregate. Available at: http://www.kongregate.com/ (Accessed on: 13/3/2014).
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